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Is this Axeprite?

I dont understand why you specifically single out Asprite. Your argument for not wanting to paint pixel-by-pixel is an artistic preference and not a downside of the software. Pining that on Asprite because it doesn't automate major steps of the process for you sounds petty. You can also still paint pixel-by-pixel in every other program that you recommend, so if you were making that a downside, then all of these would be at fault for you not wanting to paint pixel-by-pixel. Not to mention, Asprite is also a fee program. You can compile it yourself instead of buying it from the devs if you so wish. They even give you the tools to do so. And the only reason it's used as much as it is is because of its animation and spritesheet tools. Which even Photoshop doesn't have.

Thank you for showing me this video before I could even think about buying aseprite. For a program that's supposedly made for pixel art, it's extremely limited in its support for it.

*trashes Aseprite for no valid reason nor backs it up truthfully or logically* *"Best artists use PS"* *I doesn't use PS anymore because is "pricey"* Dude. BRUH. Did you seriously record yourself and heard or processed NOTHING of what you said and went "Yeah, good enough *upload*"? For your line of thinking ALONE + plus your B roll in favour of PS tells me that all the art you attempt to do is solely to serve an end and NOT for the actual joy of doing art. And is plain for all to see too in the end result. As salty as this made me, allow me to leave my 2 cents, just like many others ripping you a new one in the comments. 1. Aseprite is TRULY GOOD, and the BEST specialty pixelart making program on the MARKET, EASY. Believe me when I say I LOOKED. And is not even expensive and can be found on Steam for cheaper than on their main site when sales are on. Heck, is just 20 USD for a variety of versions of it including a Steam key and they have option of it running on Linux. Krita too runs on Linux, but I do think PS doesn't support Linux. And it has "Overwhelmingly Positive" ratings on Steam for a reason! I tried Pixilart's own editor, Pixel Studio and dotpict as well, they are not as robust. Krita is fine and will do the job, but Aseprite is faster to iterate in once you get the hang of it. Krita is ideal as a one program to do it all in, and if you know it better, then use it over Aseprite. Photoshop tho? Adobe has a HISTORY of being utterly shit at fixing bugs that have been there for YEARS, no goodwill with the artist community, genuinely greedy and have been puping out trash art applications for YEARS. Everyone in the artist community heard of the fiasco with Fresco, too. Prices are almost unjustified and every artist either gets their PS cracked, HAS to use it for their job (which is utter bull), or got a massive discounted bundle as a student at an arts uni and basically cheesed their system to keep using it cheaper. What's more, Adobe is having the AUDACITY to introduce AI tools into PS. Is not all bad, but since too many companies are shoehorning AI tools in everything now, I wouldn't chuck it to anything else but Adobe being greedy and desperate. An ACTUALLY artist recommended program Clip Studio Paint did introduce AI tools too, but they removed them due to backlash at least. And Clips pricing for what it does? So so much more reasonable, and it goes on sale multiple times a year at practically a bragain. But aside for all that, your B roll during that section is outright PATHETIC. Sure, go ahead, use the easy route to make your game, use asset packs, edit them, but do not DARE stare me dead in the face to say PS is better when what you really want is to barely draw. You cannot just show me you "struggling" with Aseprite tryin'a shade a damn CIRCLE, and then show me PS doing the same thing except the program does is ALL FOR YOU! Are you tryn'a bullshit us?! Do you really think you can fog my sight from THIS MONSTROSITY?! What you did in PS doesn't even look half decent! You put NO EFFORT in THAT! Nada! Zilch! And I do, however, get it. Everyone wants nice stuff for themselves and the easy way is always valid. Go ahead, take the shortcut. But I will not tolerate the audacity of me, an artist, looking for a recommendation/suggestion of new programs to try out, to show me how "easy" is to make art in PS LIKE THIS. This is NOT what I came here for in good faith. This is straight up a BAD way to argument your choice. 1. TL:DR Aseprite is genuinely good, Krita is a good sub, Photoshop has no business being mentioned as "better". 2. Pixel Joint is the most established pixel specific art platform, yes, but it is not the only one, nor taking "top tier" artists choice of program for granted. Artists use what they can, what they afford, what they can in good faith stand behind, and what they just simply prefer. There's a myriad of different art styles, techniques and methods, and an artist chooses their program to facilitate that. I used Paint Tool SAI for the longest time because I liked the no fluff interface, easy to get started (doesn't take forever to boot like *cough* PS *cough*), and it was also simply the first I properly used for a long time. Will you like it? There is no guarantee. What suits me doesn't always, if ever, suit somebody else. Much more so if we also take into account programs with an editable "layout" (or also known as "workspace" in some), where the same program can look wildly different for each person. More than that, why the heck even go straight for the pro's picks?! Why even look at pros to begin with?! Your art doesn't look to me like is comparable to theirs in quality, so why not look at people in the same "bracket" of experience as yourself and both see how you can improve your art from somebody far closer to you in skill and nowere as hard to figure out from a pro, and also see what they use merely as a suggestion, pure curiosity to see what the current market has to offer. I always liked Krita's pattern making mode (for making tiling wallpapers etc.) and knew no other program that does that. Stuff like that. 2. TL:DR Why try to use specifically the same program as "top picks" when your needs will inevitably be different from theirs? And why go straight to pros, when you should compare and learn from somebody with a similar skill level as yourself? 3. The most glaring issues I see is: ... If you struggle drawing individual pixels... Why the fuck are you doing pixel art in the first place? Or better yet, if you truly want to make pixel art, why the fuck you draw on such big canvases?! With so many colors too?! Draw on an 8x8, 16x16, 32x32, and suddenly, your issue just *poofs* otta existence because is so so much easier to refine something on a smaller scale. And you shall see very quickly the every pixel counted ALWAYS. That's the damn CHARM OF PIXEL ART! Is a mosaic of squares that creates a pretty picture, instead of layering brushstrokes upon brushstroken upon more marks and lines etc. Every pixel matters SO MUCH that in a 16x16, with a trained eye you can literally SEE when you place one single wrong pixel. It bothers me immediatelly when I am trying to animate an 8x8 sprite and the pixel I put down makes the motion less readable. So, I undo, place another right next, and see if is good. By trial and error, I have to find the best solution to my motion of choice. Same applies for literally everything pixel. Do a small canvas like a 8x8 in a 1-bit type palette (aka black and white), I'd like to see you try. Genuinely. 3. TL:DR Why do pixel art if you dislike drawing each pixel? If you insist sticking with pixel art, why not try smaller canvases that are more manageable? Why not less colors? Why tackle big pieces that take time when you struggle with the simple act of putting each pixel down?

gamemaker

How do I tell youtube that I love this video. Liking doesnt feel like enough. I saved to a playlist but damn the process tips here are so inspiring. Ive been avoiding working because im not really interesting in coloring or pallettes but youve introduced me to a way to go about it that doesnt feel tedious and frustrating.

Aseprite>>>

Real carpenters use hand drills! None of these fuckin battery-powered drills or shit. That's cheating!

you realy should try gamemaker the ultimate 2d game engine

i like how its a tool that helps rather than doing everything for me

In my workflow I use blender, photoshop/gimp, and then aseprite. The latter is very useful to automate task writing lua scripts. For a programmer like me that is valuable option. In any case, I don't like online tools. So, for me Photopea is not an option. I'm interested in Krita. Other tool I would like to use is PixelOver, but I still haven't learned to use well.

why would you use construct if it costs money and then you make a video about using free software instead of using software that costs money use Gdevelop its free and it uses visual scripting like construct

G-Develop >Construct

If you tell me that you do your video montage on Davinci Resolve I'm definitively in love of you

There is nothing worse for your pixel art than "traditional notions!"

0:00 how is called the forst icon block white with black eye

who cares

I generally use Aseprite and Photoshop CS5 (yes old but it's legal) and occasionally Pyxel for tilesets... I'm looking at Krita, but I don't see how you're doing the automatic dithering... What you're doing looks great, but I'm unclear on how you are doing it.

Great video, thank you! At least people who do this aren't using AI. I mean, if they are using this tool to pixelize AI art, then yeah, that would be scummy.

As a pixel artist and a normal illustrator as well this might be good for programmers but kinda not dumb for any artist the reason we like pixel by pixel is because we can design what we are making to be of right size make proper animations for it and export it properly well my drawing software can kinda do that its alot harder to navigate something like photoshop for pixels😅 ...... I think this guy just wants clicks cause I actually don't think people probably use that too if there making sprites ....... Also if anyone is interested in a 3d pixel software I use magic voxle ...... 😊

Well, ok, for a 2D platformer you don't necessarily need a game engine as backend, and things like SDL are sufficient as basis. But dont try to write your own 3D game engine. This is a very inefficient time sink if the actual intend is to make a game.

Pixel Joint member since 2005 here. First, thank you for bringing up our little community. However, your bit about "one click" pixel art, is a bit misleading, they have poor clustering and are overdithered. Pretty much every top of the line pixel artist does their art pixel by pixel, most of the time. Index painting has it's uses, especially for game assets, but over-relying on it, is poor practice. I can't speak for the viability of Aseprite, as I am a photoshop user since over 25 years, but bringing up the Hall of Fame on Pixel Joint as evidence that "pr0" artists don't use Aseprite, when the majority of Hall of Fame pieces are from before Aseprite even existed in the way it exists today. Furthermore, a great artist is not a great artist because he uses photoshop or any other tool. A great artist can achieve great results no matter the tool.

having aseprite in the tittle but not using aseprite in the whole video~ 🙄

These were some nice tipps. Thanks for sharing!

And now for aseprite: It simply has a different workflow. A bit like OpenToonz. Opentoonz has pretty sparse drawing capabilities, and many users open feature requests with better painting capabilities, and some sometimes get implemented. But OT simply expects a different workflow, it expects the user to know how to draw, or at the very least, knows that OT is also a compositing program that can take assets from all sorts of sources and animate with it. So, even though it cannot paint well, it will allow you use digitized painted pictures, either reallife scans, or from programs like Krita. The only snag in this comparison with Aseprite is: That while you could do the roughs and other design steps in a different program, then use the finalized draft to finish it in aseprite... These 'different programs' can already work as 'pixeling tools' too. Even GIMP can do that. So, it certainly has a weakness in that workflow...but if you still followed it, especially using reallife scans, and 'inked and painted' those in aseprite (like one can do in opentoonz) then aseprite has all the tools you need. You prefer the other tools, like Krita and Photoshop more because they offer and easier "drafting" process, and that just makes the difference for you, because you need it, for some reason or another. My guess is that you don't have a clear vision and experiment with these tools to then arrive at something that pleases you, and that's fine... but for aseprite (and opentoonz) that is not the workflow they expect. OT has crappy drafting tools because it expects the artist to know how to draw, that's why it is pretty empty on the 'painterly brushes' and leans more into 'precise inking' (although nowadays OT has a bunch of painterly brushes, but still very few 'makes drawing easier tools') And aseprite expects you to know what you want, it really is as simple as that... it doesn't include the kind of 'experimental drafting' where you add filters, sliders, and automation, it only gives you the tools to 'make pixelized' the design you, at the stage of firing up the program, have decided on, the final step, so to speak. That all said, that's just what aseprite expects, if you have a clear vision then photoshop and krita still work just as well, I just wanted to explain the assumption of the program. It's not bad, it just doesn't intend to be a drafting/design program, but a 'realization of the final form'.

The pros from back then, you know, the ones living and coding and creating in a low tech world, the 80s,90s,00s would have used this without batting an eye. When you see old Street Fighter or Darkstalkers art, it wasn't immediately done in a pixel program, no, they actually drew them as paper animation cels first, scanned those, shrank them etc. They did everything they could to make their work easier, it just happened that 'easier' back then is now considered 'painstaking' or 'budget breaking' (many couldn't even use their home computers for development and had to use workstations) There is something true about 'limitation breeds creativity', but all great painters, especially those from the renaissance, had few limits, at least if they were able to afford the tools, the pigments, oils, etc and they still created mind blowing artworks. To create something good... it ultimately is the diligence AND the personal artistic view of the artist who does it. Anyway, tl; dr: I'd say 99% of all oldschool old people game devs and artists would have leaped for joy at the tools we have today and would consider none of them 'cheating'.

Also, don't use audacity, use tenacity, it's a fork, but not run by villains. (aka muse group, they are not nice people)

>one click bruh look at your effects layers and everything, unless they magically sprung into existence with no setup whatsoever, it wasn't just 'one click'.

Bro roasted Aseprite in every way possible

I use gimp

For pixel illustrations krita and Photoshop looks so powerful and unbelievable, but I still miss a good tool for animating npcs goodly like aseprite. Thanks to you now I know how I can draw most of backgrounds and scenarios for my games without spending alot of time on it, I didnt expect photoshop could do all this magic with less clicks.

Brasil mano, parabéns pelo conteúdo, de qualidade em! Estudei programação a alguns anos, mas voltei querendo criar jogos que é um sonho bem antigo! Valeu a ajuda.

I don't even know aseprite but i am already feeling pity of it 😢😢

People who are angry at those who use these techniques are the same people who bash artists for using references or 3D mockups.

Kitra is free, and/or on Steam... oh, he talks about Kitra lol. Well personally I use GIMP, and I love it. Its free, but not on steam 😢

i dont udersatnd how you can create a game with poor code without an editor

Can you use a descent IDE with Construct?

Thank you for making colour theory easier to understand, it was great to see how you used the palette

Now i need tutorials to learn how to set up these custom brushes for pixel art on Krita and Photopea

Such a cool and cute game! My favourite part is the option to collect the wool from the sheep, omg it is soo cute! Also the sound effects, are so relaxing! I am rooting for you in this Jam :D

I enjoyed playing your game :) thanks for playing mine too.

Great job! I also participated in the jam

Made it in time✊

Wow! I wasn't expecting Construct 3 to be your final choice at all, but it's where I ended up, too, along with PlayCanvas, since I'm developing an html5/webgl game that uses both engines. I started with Unity back in 2007, then fled when their price structure went through its first major change. Babylonjs is also great, but both PlayCanvas and Construct 3 do most of the heavy lifting, as you said, allowing me to just concentrate on artwork, animation, game mechanics, and the "light coding" of JavaScript. Thanks for an entertaining video, and an assurance that I've made the right choices!

How many wishlist you got? So sad man, the game looks very good!

on of the best video that iv watch so far for pixel art... full of important info+ SHOWING how to do stuff + funny jokes <3

avoid photoshop cause of the cancelation fees.

I still base on case studies, as Tupac Shakur once said -- "I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world" In short, everyone wants to be the spark if not influencer but those things don't actually have popular case studies except extreme outliers like Stardew Valley, those are not the top <3+ are not consistently pumping out hits, like the currently hype Content Warning. Not saying they shouldn't, I'll also be one of the sparks -- they can try.

aseprite is only good if you draw like mcpig

I'm so happy i chose krita because it was free... One of the completely free alternatives that's actually worth it... I'll still get aseprite in the future though...